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Van Cliburn traveled, performed and practiced from 1958, when he won the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition in Moscow, to 1978, when he closed the lid on his piano, bought a house in Fort Worth and continued his own quadrennial piano competition. Between 1989 and 1991, he did do a few concerts. Still, the music world worried. Was he ill? Depressed by critics who said his repertory was limited? Nobody knows, and Howard Reich only repeats theories in "Van Cliburn." Mr. Reich, an arts critic for The Chicago Tribune, tells the lanky Texan's life through interviews with musicians, including Mr. Cliburn, and excerpts from music magazines. He weaves all of this into a detailed biography. Mr. Cliburn is portrayed as a likable, diligent and spontaneous man whose chief fault was being late. The book may disappoint those who object to fawning or want a definitive statement on Mr. Cliburn's retirement, but Mr. Reich nevertheless provides a service with this first biography since Abram Chasins's out-of-print book "The Van Cliburn Legend," published in 1959.
When a lanky, unpretentious, incredibly gifted, twenty-three-year-old Texan took Moscow by musical storm in 1958, it launched a sensational career that began at the age of thirteen and was to span over four decades. At the height of the Cold War, this friendly, open-hearted pianist enchanted the hearts of Americans and Russians alike with playing that was more about "personal communications than exhibitionistic virtuosity." Winning the Soviet-sponsored Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition immediately thrust Van Cliburn into political as well as artistic pressures, attention, adulation, and scrutiny that might have sabotaged any young artist who lacked the confidence and conviction of Van Cliburn.After an eleven-year retreat into privacy, the myth that surrounded the name Van Cliburn in the 1950s and '60s became legend with his triumphant reentry in 1987-an event that was to epitomize the poetic nature of Van's entire life. Responding to an invitation to perform for Mikhail and Raisa Gorbachev at a state dinner, Van once again proved that music is indeed the universal language of understanding and is capable of uniting our diverse cultures. Bounding off the platform after his performance to kiss Nancy Reagan and Raisa Gorbachev, Van responded to Raisa's request for more music by playing the beloved Soviet song "Moscow Nights"-the same nostalgic song he had learned and performed during his first incredible journey to Moscow in 1958.As millions of Americans watched on their television screens, the usual staid state dinner dissolved into a moving memory of Van singing along with the Gorbachevs as the whole room was overcome by tears. Russia and America joined hands and hearts in this one historical moment. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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